May 2022, Paper: "This paper makes the case that current social contracts are often inadequate, irrelevant, or unjust for informal workers…
Scholars of descriptive representation have paid growing attention to the issue of class. This article contributes to this line of research…
May 2022, Paper: "The payment of living wages remains one of the most powerful routes to help people out of poverty, start to tackle…
May 18, 2022, Paper: "A substantial portion of the service sector workforce is middle aged or older, but little is known about the…
May 16, 2022, Opinion: "It can be difficult to see a way out of the current cost of living crisis. Prices continue to rise, and there are…
May 9, 2022, Video: "In this interview, I talk with distinguished labor economist, Larry Katz. Larry Katz is a pillar in economics as…
Project on Workforce Summer Fellowships give Harvard students and graduates experience with practice and research on the future of work.
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding,…
Who are the girls who decide to sign up for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and coding clubs? In this…
We study the relationship between teachers' stereotypes and students' high school choice in a setting where students can enroll in more or…